Discuss Design Without Losing Your Mind

What You’ll Learn

Methods for doing critique, plus how it can make us better communicators

Tools for focusing and facilitating discussions, even with difficult people

A sense of where critique falls in your design process

Tips for shaping feedback into powerful design iterations

Getting feedback from clients, teams, and stakeholders can be terrifying. We’ve all had our designs berated during painful meetings that result in nothing actionable or useful.

Well wipe your brow, because critiques—and the language for discussing design—are an important part of our growth as designers. After all, progress comes from understanding why something is the way it is, then examining how it meets or doesn’t meet desired goals.

Fortunately, you’ll learn how to facilitate helpful discussions and move ideas forward from the best teachers in the business: Adam Connor and Aaron Irizarry.

So if overcoming an endless barrage of opinions has thwarted your design progress in the past, then this talk is a must-attend. Get the techniques to make critique a positive experience for everyone involved.

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Why Adam?

Adam Connor never tires of explaining why collaboration and critique are critical elements of the design process. And this is a perfectly awesome characteristic of an experience design director at Mad*Pow.

Adam also is a renowned artist and illustrator with more than a decade of experience in creating digital designs. He speaks regularly on the power of critiques at industry conferences from IA Summit to Web 2.0, and his vocal support for Design Studios continues to positively influence the way designers work today.